News & Announcements: Let me make my self very clear....

As the older members among you while remember. I was once going to close down the site as I was sick of the games, politics and whining like little girls. I was talked out of it by Nep who was going to take over the running of the site. Instead he went off to make Fifa videos.


I am now back at that junction again. The site hasn't changed, it's the same old politics, whining and mind games as before. As I am not far of turning 30, and after starting the original LA when I was 15 I now no longer have interest in this shit being in my life anymore.


I do not ask for or expect you all to respect or even like me. But I do expect you all to respect the site enough to follow the rules. I do not expect you to try and challenge them in some petty mind games where you think you are far to good to follow them. This is not a democracy, this is my house and it has my rules. These rules are there to protect and benefit you all. If you have no interest in following them, I suggest you don't bother logging back in again.


The reason I am back to the idea of closing the site, is the complete lack of respect anyone on the site shows to the site and it's fellow members. The retarded kids who have attention spans of dead house flys with no interest in reading any of the vast information available to them, instead they demand I hold their fucking hands and explain everything to them, over and over again, as they are incapable of retaining the most basic of information. Urban Legends was a fucking joke, nobody could be bothered to vote and others couldn't even be bothered to drop a verse. The monthly awards fiasco, you don't bother voting on those, so they get taken away from you, yet you don't like being mere spectators either? What fuck is it you do want? Other than 'all the glory, with non of the work'?


Not to mention the Ink/Packed/Jr shit. There are rules which everyone is expected to follow. And I enforce them as consistantly and as fairly as I can. Yet the site sees it more as a fucking popularity contest. I am expected to give J504 and Kos a chance to clear their names before the ban? Yet Lo Oniel it's "good riddance"? I am expected to bend shit for Ink and Packed and let them have a newer account as their only account, rather than the first one that every other double as been forced to use? Jr is some how better than us all and I should let him run around doing what ever the fuck he wants? And if I have the audacity to even expect him to follow the rules like everyone else, I am "power tripping"?


I wanted to return to simply building the site up behind the scenes, such as the LA Radio, and what was going to be Soundcloud integration so your songs appear on your profile. As well as open mics. But SS won't be returning, and I suspect their will be cheers from the back for that, but he was helping me with various things to boost the site up and make things better, they are obviously now not going to happen. It also means I would be forced to return to the 'front lines' and deal with your childish spats instead of adding improvements to the site. Congratulations on that one.


So this is my fair warning to the site as a whole. Grow the fuck up. Change your fucking attitudes and stop being such fucking babies. If things do not change around here for the better, then you'll all need to find a new home for your little bitchfests as I won't be paying the server costs to host it anymore.


And you wonder why I won't allow a battle league? You're all a fucking joke.

The main rule that seems to be at issue, is the 'upping' rule. I would like nice clean battles, without the pages of spam and shit that happened in the old days. It is easier for the mods to count up votes and close which benefit the battlers. There is no more swaying and shit which ends in back-n-forths. I have seen some seriously insane battles in terms of spam and shit in my time, it benefits nobody.

The problem arises from either the retarded n00bs who don't bother reading the rules or the egotistical twats who think their better than the rules. I do not do empty threats, if I threaten a ban for continued ignoring of the rules, I follow through with it.


The double accounts rule is self explainary, yet some of you feel that there should be exceptions made due to popularity. I have no interest in getting involved in popularity contests.

Or...another controversial idea.

Why not remove the battling feature altogether? Leave people to diss each other in the open mic if they want to & then have the Events as the time when people get to battle.

Means you more often than not avoid voting shit altogether and you don't need mods to admin a battlefield if it's not there!!

*edit*...also, you can substitute the battle field with range of "pay to play" options. So tourneys where you put a set amount in and cash prize to winner (less few quid to contribute to sites running costs). Even a battle league where you put in X as a deposit and if you don't show up you can lose your deposit.

Means you have LESS battles but those you do have are actually FOR something. It works with online poker, why not LA?

Edited by Cuba - 23 August 2014 at 11:58am

Good job.... Close down this shitty ass side.

ScriptureZ you're welcome to come to MvC lol.

also the pay to play battling would be dope. idk how much work that is, but youd be able to take a small cut say 10% of the battle winnings, or people could put money into their wallets, 100 points for a tenner, 1 pound going to you, and then battle by gambling points.

I can 100% see where you're coming from Scotty, but I think you need to listen to some of your non-troll members and forget about the newbs for a minute. I completely agree with everything Cuba has said in this post...

Cuba wrote: I think maybe it would make your life a bit easier if you didn't have so many rules that you felt you had to enforce. I appreciate that people should read and follow the rules, and I think we all acknowledge that you've been taking steps to try and improve the experience of the site...it's got a lot more going for it than in a long time. But equally, I don't necessarily see the value in you running around banning people, enforcing x rule, y rule. I guess my point is that, what would really happen if you took a very laid back approach from a 'day to day' admin enforcer type role & focused on doing the bits and pieces that you enjoy which is making the improvements to the site? I remember being a mod back in the day, it's a thankless task and you generally just get a lot of shit and not many plaudits...I can imagine being admin is worse. What I'm trying to say is, maybe look at the cost/benefits. The cost of running around herding the idiots is high in terms of time/energy/sanity...but what benefits are you getting out of that? Could you use that time better doing things you get more benefit out of in terms of enjoyment?

It's only since you introduced some of the newer rules that the site has gone tits up from a moderating point of view - some of the rules are ridiculously petty, especially in regards to battling. How many members have you seen around the board with battling bans? You've even got respected members such as Law & Kiki, who clearly have no intention of causing any trouble to the battlefield or the website in general, not able to battle because they've done something as trivial as posting in their battle to acknowledge the other person's drop and tell them they had a good verse. If half the members on the site are going round with Battling Ban's and troll stamps it's not gonna look good for LA. Yes, I understand that you want to cut down on spam, and that can still be done without needlessly banning people or branding them as trolls. FO made a good point, you have a good range of respected members to choose from who you could also make moderators to help you out. If SS wants to throw his toys out of the pram and go off in a sulk cos people are angry at how strict he was as a mod then you don't need him. If he wants to be a little more lenient, not so intense and come back and help the site move forward, which he is obviously capable of doing, then tell him to come back here.




I've had a few spells as moderator on this site myself and I happily went about my business without causing too much fuss. Admittedly, I mainly focused on moderating the battle field rather than other parts of the site, but I did it without causing an uproar. If I seen a lot of posts in a battle that were unneeded, I'd just delete/'hide' them and post saying 'cut the spam, just votes from now on' or something and that was that. You don't have to go round banning people and posting about the up rule every day, or branding new members as 'trolls' which will just deter them from staying on the site. If you want me to become a moderator again I'll happily take on the role just to help in and around the battlefield and keep it running smoothly like I always did.

dont be blind jus cause hes your crew man, SS was wayy over the top, with everything not jus banning people an quite obviously bipolar. im not suprised hes having a break, his family probly staged a intervention and put him in eHab. he did give great feed and hes a great writer no oned denying that, he just got a bit wierd and socially awkward. n no one gives a fuck about flame because they dont contribute. J5, is, and was one of the best writers here, its a shame to lose a talent like that. if this isnt a place for a talent its not a place id wanna be. we're lucky to have so many good writers. 

Trizzy Tre wrote: I think if everyone relaxed and enjoyed the real reason why we're all here.....to write. Share our work. Feed other work. Battle. And most of all be a community....cuz thats what we are. It'd be a better place overall.

mate, im not gunna get at you, or trying too, but LA has 10+ years of history, think of the art, its almost hard to comprehend how many people have put time and effort into this site, IMO on the whole fucking net an immeasurably huge thing, this site is stands out as different and special, you should be proud of what youv given to a nearly countless amount of people. to destroy that over petty shit is a shame. its your site man, you can do what you want. but i guarantee youd regret it.